On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:33 PM, floris v <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, in the old oooforum.org forum this topic was posted: > > http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=485494#485494 > > > > It appears that if you download and install OOo from > > http://www.office-suite-download.com/ you also get the funmoods toolbar > and > > a lot of trouble. Can you take action against it? Thank you. > > > > I found more information from the user on this one. He found it when > searching Bing for Open Office. If you try that you will see several > fake sites, as paid advertisements. One site even claims to be the > "official Open Office download" (http://www.open-office-download.net/) > though their "premium installer" (showing a large OpenOffice.org logo) > installs a bunch of other apps that inject themselves into your > browser, etc. > > The business model is simple. They are paid per install to bundle > these other apps, and they advertize their adulterated version of > OpenOffice via email spam, social network spam, domain squatting and > search engine advertisements. > > In general taking down the actual sites is difficult. Some of these, > for example, are off-shore. So our best bet is to go after the > weakest link, namely Bing. The search engines like Bing and Google > generally have a policy against using 3rd party trademarks in ad text. > Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc., have similar policies that could be > used. So instead of trying to shut down the site, you simply prevent > the sites from using the major search engines and social network sites > to confuse users. > > However, to raise a complaint against these ads via Bing would require > that we actually have the registered trademark in Apache's name, > something we do not have now. But if we did we could take care of all > of these sites in an afternoon. > > Shane, what is your advice on this? Is it now time to move and register the trademarks to the PPMC can take action here? > -Rob > > > Peter aka floris v > > >
